The Second New Deal
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- Created on: 09-05-13 15:37
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- The Second New Deal
- Employment
- Works Progress Adminstration
- $4 billion to set up major public work schemes to provide relief
- $52 wage a moth
- Builiding of hospitals, schools, road, airports, playgrounds, Fort Knox
- National Labour Relations Board
- Redress the balance between employees and emplyers
- Did not apply to agriculture or domestic services
- Fair Labour Standards Act
- Maximum 44 hours per week, minimum of 25c wage
- Prohibited child labour
- Did not cover farm labourers/domestic servants
- Works Progress Adminstration
- Agrivculture
- Rural Electrification
- Low ineterest loans to install electricity in remote areas where big companies had no interest
- Soil Erosion & Conservation Act
- Paid farmers to plant conserving grasses & legumes
- Farm Security Administration
- Funded loans to help farmers keep theri land
- Agricultural Adjustment
- Quotas for produce
- Rural Electrification
- Housing
- Resettlment Act
- Aimed to move 500,000 families from overworked land and resettle them in more promising surroundings
- National Housing Act
- Housing projects for poorer families
- Local banks with federal money to finance home mortages to raise home ownership
- Resettlment Act
- Economic
- Revenue Act
- Increased rtaxes for the rich, raising the top level of income
- Reduced Government spending
- Banking Act
- Removed the control of banking from private bankers
- Financial managment to Washington
- Social Security Adminstration
- Federal insurance for the elderly, unemployed and disballed
- Those needing most help e.g agriculture were excluded
- Revenue Act
- Employment
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